CHRISTOPHER R. HALE is a corporate partner in Sidley’s Chicago office. He advises clients on a wide variety of public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate finance transactions. In addition to his transactional work, Chris regularly advises public company clients and their boards of directors on a broad range of corporate and securities law matters, including corporate governance matters, SEC reporting and disclosure issues, activism and takeover defense, fiduciary duty issues, and stock exchange requirements.
In 2018, Chris was selected as one of Chicago’s emerging leaders by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
While in law school, Chris served as an extern for the Honorable Mark Filip, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.